LOS ANGELES — Consider this year's list of Oscar nominees for Best Original Song. Your eyes gravitate to the clear favorites, John Legend and Common, who penned "Glory" from "Selma." There's the sentimental choice, country great Glen Campbell, celebrated for a song written during his late-st…

Michael Jackson, right, accepts a special "Artist of the Millennium" award from Britney Spears during the MTV Video Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002. (AP Photo/ Beth Keiser)